1
as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
What kind of loon laughs at his own jokes when no one else is laughing?
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2
as in idiot
a stupid person
The loons at the grocery store had put the potato chips at the bottom of the bag.
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Recent Examples of loon
Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
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Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
This judgement is mine, for Herzog is far subtler and more ambivalent in his framing of Boyes, not fully suggesting in this film — made for the National Geographic with Disney money — that his subject is a loon but, equally, not leaving that interpretation off the table.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
The 600-acre pond is surrounded by private property and is home to loons, smallmouth bass and other aquatic life.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
Together, Jamie and Isla bring the baby to Kelson, who turns out to be welcoming and accommodating, despite his reputation as a loon.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 June 2025
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Also, Joan Cusack plays an infamous local eccentric, and a fictional pop star shows up!—
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The logger and railsplitter occasionally encounters American eccentrics, like a chatty drifter prone to sporting bible verses and an old coot of a demolitions expert with a philosophical bent.—
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Gyles Brandreth, broadcaster, former MP and friend to Christopher Robin Milne, opened up about the man behind the character while chatting with Joe Sibilia on Nostalgia Tonight.—
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That idea of shiny surfaces is key to Cathy’s character and costumes.—
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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What so many of these talking heads have in common—legitimate experts, well-meaning journalists, and kooks alike—is how costly their recommendations are.—
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The kooks of that age believed that Iran-Contra was only just an inkling of the secret government behind the scenes that was preparing to herd Americans into prison camps.—
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
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As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.—
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Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.—
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This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.—
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His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.—
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Bits of bacon, mini hot-pockets, nutter butters and doritos.—
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Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings with a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.—
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“Loon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loon. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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